BenQ’s projector variations continue to proliferate, especially in the field of plonk-and-play all-in-one projectors which have streaming smarts and speakers built-in. Some of BenQ’s projectors look like traditional projectors, but then there are circular ‘GV’ projectors which roll around in curved bases beaming light at the ceiling, and roughly cubic ‘X’ projectors like this one, a friendly box you can put down pretty much anywhere, ready to create big-screen entertainment from its projected images, and relatively small-box sound into the bargain from its own internal speakers.
By our count there are currently three of these near-cubic projection offerings from BenQ, and you’d be hard pressed to tell them apart from the outside without lining them up, or at least noting their dimensions in the specifications. The other two are both significantly larger: 27cm wide compared with the 22cm width here, and both are more than twice the X300G’s 3kg weight.
BenQ also varies its projector ranges by role, so that there are models labelled for home theatre, there’s one earmarked as a sports projector, there’s a little portable model with a handle, and also a ruggedised ‘outdoor’ projector. This X300G is one of several that are termed gaming projectors, as are the larger X cubes, though one of those is specifically an “Immersive Open World” Gaming Projector, presumably for the likes of Red Dead Redemption and Assassin’s Creed rather than the more tightly focused God of War or Call Of Duty. We’re not a gaming magazine, but we test BenQ’s gaming projectors anyway, because past models have proven excellent-value all-rounders (as we find most BenQ consumer projectors to be, regardless of their labels).
Indeed sometimes we wonder if BenQ makes all these differentiations just so”. Which might mean there have previously been portable gaming projectors featuring a 4K short throw design, optical motorized zoom and only moderate input lag. But our point is that we’d suggest you not dismiss the X300G just because you don’t need a gaming projector. It’s got more than that going on.
